Farida

By: Mazigh, Monia

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, Translation, 2025

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.

Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language. But she is compelled to marry Kamel, a brute of a man, who drinks, keeps mistresses, and beats her when she talks back. But she is defiant, and takes comfort from her secret reading. The country is a French colony and male-dominated. Finally after ten years she is granted a divorce by the courts and lives with her son Tewfiq. A smoking, independent-minded divorcee, she sees the country attain its freedom from the French and its arrival into modern times; the growth of her son into a young public servant; and her granddaughter Leila mature into an independent, educated young woman. This is a novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177415174X
• ISBN13: 9781774151747
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"